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Dedicated to the Progress of the North
Phone LOgan   4-2441
Vol.  3;   No.  233
PRINCE GEORGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1959
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I" must have a red nose! So, Joan McGregor adds this touch, under the watchful eye of husband Alec. This Christmas set will appear later this week,
above the i. B. Guest store, on George St. It is understood that other merchants are proceeding with their decorating plans.                  �Hal Vandervoort Photo
City Contributing To Winter Work Program
As its contribution to winter work the eity   so far,
plans   projc-e-ift- -c-ratirrp*> r-rnri-y- $l34!tH}0;'*iJ***S-r'1  -:
Four projects � to cost only $4,770 � have received senior government approval but bulk of the work, planned by the works department, has yet to get Federal-Provincial sanction.
If approval  is granted  for all I Boulevard" is a start on making
proposed tasks 2,487'u man clays work will be provided, accounting for some $40,000 in wages.
Work undertaken last year represented only about $20,000 in wages.
The federal government pays 50 per cent of wages and the province and the city share equally the remaining 50 per cent.
Three   of  the   four   projects were given the okay are to be undertaken   by   the   parks   department   and   tho   other   one is planned by the Civic Properties Commission. The   five   larger   cold-weather jobs for which the city has sought approval from the senior governments are proposed by the works department. APPROVED PROJECTS
1.  The CPC work is slated to start within  days   and   is  slated to   be   completed    shortly    after Christmas,  It  is  the  demolition and   removal   of   the   old   frame building   at    the    Little    League diamond, which will increase the usable field area.
(Five men are to be employed 75 man days on this project, to cost SI, 150. Wages for tlje job are slated to equal 91,050).
2.   One   parks   board   project, which also begins shortly, is the construction   of  30   wooden   and concrete   park   benches   and   six concrete  drinking   fountains   for local   parks.     This   work   is   not scheduled to be completed before the April 30 deadline for senior government winter works assistance.
(Two men . . . (>3 man days . . . wages, $l.-0"0 . . . project cost, $1,475).
3.   The  parks  board   will  also construct a  12 by   1(5 foot building at Fort Cieorge Park as storage   space   for   park   equipment. This  will  start  April   1   and  be completed April 20.
(Two men , . . 16 man days . . . wages, $270 . . . project cost.
$520).
4.  The other approved winter work   project   to   bo   undertaken by the  parks department   is  the slashing, clearing
trees and bush in Fort George Park and on Third Avenue where it joins Laurier Crescent. The park clearing, is the first stage of plans to extend the park by some five acres. Clearing of what is    known    as    "Third    Avenue
that area a small rest
and recreation centre, with benches, swings, etc. ... To start soon, this job also carries the April 'M deadline.
(Three   men   .   .   .   021 �>   man clays . . . wages, $1,075 . . . work cost, $1,G25). NOT APPROVED
The five works department jobs, representing the lion's ($120,050) share of the entire $134,000 program, call for 2,265 man days work. Application for winter work scheme financial aid for these projects was made some 10 days ago but the city has yet to receive word from the senior  governments.
The largest project of the five, storm and sanitary sewer construction, needs sanction not only of the governments but of the owner electors. They'll vote Dec. 17 on a $114,000 money bylaw for the storm work, to be included, in part, in the proposed $00,000 cold-weather sewer construction. The city seeks approval for winter work aid in order to be prepared if electors approve the bylaw.
Work this winter on sewers would represent only part of the construction program, with more to be done on sewer projects during the summer. START IN FEBRUARY
Start on this work is set down lor February 1. The cost, wage rise, for winter work would be :?20.500 on the $!X).000 worth of work  planned for the winter on
$7,300 and  pay $2,600 in  wages
to   olght   men.  *��*�   1DD   iiai.ii    ttaytk labor.    �
The other winter work project planned by works department is construction of precast concrete catch basins for the 1960 storm sewer program. This work, to cost $1,150, would be completed in first two weeks of January. Payroll would amount to $550 and give two men 30 man days work.
Architect Trelle Morrow, 1331 Fourth Avenue, Prince George has been commissioned to prepare designs for a 1200 sq. ft. office, to be constructed on the second storey of the existing building of the Prince George Machinery Depot Ltd. at 973 Third Avenue, Prince George.
The addition will feature laminated walls and a bonded roof, and is estimated to cost $8,000. Tenders for the sub-trades work wilt be called shortly, and the general construction will be handled by day labour as a Winter Work project.
A total of 443 range fires were recorded in the Cariboo District last summer according to a report released by Lands and Forests Minister Ray Willislon.
Forest fires in British Colum bia   last   summer   burned   more
than -S73.B31    acres   and    dirt    ?2.-
21M18   doraaSL'   tlio   rciiort says
The province recorded 2.01C fires during the summer month.1 and fighting them cost the tax payers directly, $678,000.
The figures were above the 1952-57 yearly average of 1.642 fires but was extremely light compared to the $5,500,000 fire-fighting bill in 1958.
Operating railways caused the most fires with a total of 641 marked up against them.
Smokers caused 211;' forest in dustries. 204; lightning 134; campers and travellers 172 � well below the average in most previous  years.
"The figures show," said Mr. Willislon, "that the average Bri tish Columbian today is more careful with fire in the woods especially with more people than ever before using our forests."
Three Aspirants
NELSON (CP) � A three-way mayoralty race i-; scheduled for this city in the civic elections. .Mayor T. S. Shorthouse will be opposed by two of his council Aid. Boyd ('. Affleck and Aid. Chester E. Bradshaw.
.sewer projects to eventually cost $200,000. It would keep 20 men busy  for 1.200 man days.
The secoad largest project proposed by the works department is removal of fill from Coimaught Hill. Job of moving the fill to industrial east end � near First and Hamilton � would not be completed under the winter works cost-sharing' scheme.
This job, to fill in three blocks of land, would start as soon as possible and continue to the deadline at a cost of $21,000. Full if project, to be completed later without senior government
 artment  is the      te                            g
 and disposal of   help, would be $36,000.  J�y��     costs      un
 J�
 costs,     under     the
Cooler tonight. Very cloudy Thursday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Thursday, 20 and 33.   |
scheme, are figured at $4.liO0 and the job would keep seven men working for 375 man clays, up to April 30.
Cataloguing and repair of some early water services, previously unmapped, is a proposed job that would cost $9,600, give five men 500 man clays work, and pay out wages of $8,100. It will start when and if approval is given for the work.
Drainage improvement and ac-ces road construction in the Hudson's Bay Slough area would cost
Registered Nurses' Asst Hospitals'  Association  have calling for a pay incr6a.se of in the basic wage of geners The   agreement   is   now   being, submitted to members of the two | organizations for ratification and j it was understood a meeting had been called here tonight for this purpose.   There   are    about   40 registered   nurses   at   the   local hospital.
A joint press release from the associations, who bargained this year on a provincial basis for the first time, said "About 2.500 nurses in 37 hospitals will be directly affected by the agreement and another 24 hospitals with about 500 nurses for which RNABC is not the certified bargaining agent have signified prior willingness to accept the results of the negotiations." ONLY  A  RECOMMENDATION
The agreement is on the basis of a recommendation. It does not become effective in any hospital. Individual contracts must be completed.
Most hospitals now pay a slarl-:.:v; wage of $"30 per month to registered general duty nurses. Under the new agreement, this would be increased to $235 for 1960 and $297  for  1961.
A nurse �"receives increments as she gains experience, bringing her to a maximum of �342
ciai ion of B.C. and the B.C worked out an agreement i;\ . spread over, two years
d duty nurses.
a month in lour years on the I960 scale, and $359 a montl on the 1961 scale," according tc the release.
Besides the 6.9e pay hike fo general duty nurses those ii supervisory capacities get "cor responding or higher increases under the agreement.
Averarc pay, basic rate, fo registered general duty nurse in BCIIA hospitals employin two-thirds of B.C.'s nurses ha been about $308 as a result of it crements. This is now expecte to run at $313 in 19G0 and $32 in 1961.
The associations also announc that   "In   addition   to   wage   ii creases,    the    associations    ha\ agreed   to   recommend   the   pr vision, of a contributory medica plan   in   lOb'O  i:i   all   subscribin hospitals in which it is not no in    effect,    and    superannuate benefits    when    the    necessary funds arc vol-d by the B.C. Icz islaturc."
Mrs .Rose Ruse, local hospital trustee, was one of the BCHA people at the negotiations in Vancouver attended by hospital and nurses representatives from across the province.'         4
Magistrate States
Bail wai sej i�t ->2.0(X) each when four men appeared before Magistrate George Stewart Tuesday i ;urg�u wit \ raping a\\> Prince George women.  ,
They vyere remanded to Doc. '�) for t"kd.
Charged are: William Leland, 21: .lames Amos Ford, '12: Frederick Martin, 27; and Charles An-thoiiy Gauthier, 21. The alleged offence occurred Sunday  near  Prince George.
Court was told exhibits have been sent to the Regina RCMP laboratories, and a witness will be brought here from the prairie city to testify..
The men  were still  in custody  today.
Local Lumberman.
With nomination day next Monday only two cancli-ates have, so far, entered the three-seat alclermanic ace which will climax at the city's Dec. 17 elections.
Dick   Yardley,   local    lumber-    KwwgtriTr~~~~-i"r-imw^Mmrmmri^
an, yesterday tossed his hat in
e    ring   alongside    incumbent
arry Loder.
They are the only ones to file
apors     before     tho
O    ritlOK    RXPRaiGNCG.
Yardley, 59, has no prior coun-il experience but has been acl-� on a  number of committees the Northern Interior Lumber-ion's Association. He said he considered running r "two or three weeks" before iling papers, after he was urged "several people" to try for a eat on city council. Alex Moffat and  Gordon Bry-nt signed his papers. Yardley.  who  said   nothing  of platform, has lived in Northern ..C.  for some  40 years, coming
0  Canada in 1911 from his native Jngland.
Farming in the Hixon area for
qany years, for the past. 18 years
has been in the local lumber
ndustry. He is one of the origin-
1  partners in Northern  Planing lills, formed about 10 years ago. ardley   serves   as   the   planing nil's secretary-treasurer.
As nomination day crawls near he mayoralty remains a two-way attle between incumbent Carrie ane    Gray   and   former   mayor I larvin Dezell.
DICK   YAKIM.KV
(Dec. 1 to 7 is National Safe Driving Week. During the week. The Citizen will publish a box score of the city's record.)
First Day � Tuesday.
Accidents reported:  nil.
Injuries reported: nil.
Fatalities:  nil.
Charges laid:  nil.
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guilty of assaulting Balozick, 31. Mile 2,!, charged jointly
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A story of violence in a small sawmill centre near Prince George was unravelled in court Tuesday when three mew appeared charged with assaulting a fourth who had gone there to see his estranged wife.
Fined $200 after he was found !2-ve;u-oid Mike Kollar was Tony Krilich, 2n, and his brother, Bozo, with  Balozick, were acquitted.
Magistrate George Stewart, in passing verdict, said he felt witnesses in the five-hour Ions,' trial had been "�very selective in what they want  to remember."
Balozick and the Krilich brothers were arrested Nov. 8 after a complaint they had severely I.eaten up Mike Kollar of Sin-clalr Mills, who had gone to see his wife at Cornell Mills, 50 miles cast of Prince George o.i the CNR.
Mr. and .Mrs. Kollar separated three years iikj, and Mi's. Kollar has since been living with Bol-ozick.
Kollar told the court he had gone to see his wife, but she refused to lot him in her shack, and subsequently Balozick "hit me with a 2x2 to the head."
Me quoted Balozick as Nay-ing "I kill you," and claimed Ik- was hit several times until lie whs Knocked out. i; Krilich, ho testified, kicked Iiiin in tlu> stomach while he was on the ground.
Folio-wing the assault, Kollar was driven to Prince George by
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